Friday, November 15, 2013

The Projector: Perfunctory Placeholder Edition UPDATE

Monday UPDATE UPDATE: Well looky here, the actuals reveal we nailed Thor's sophomore drop to within $100K (in truth, $86K). Get Vegas on the line.

1. Thor: The Dark World $36.6M
2. The Best Man Holiday $30.1M
3. Last Vegas $8.4M
4. Free Birds $8.1M
5. Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa $7.4MSunday UPDATE: Wild card it was. Christmas came early for Universal as their prudently-budgeted sequel The Best Man Holiday blew past expectations behind a flood of females, with 75% of the seats occupied by the fairer sex. Thor's sophomore stanza took its anticipated dive (-55%), though the plunge wasn't quite as precipitous as those experienced by his fellow comic book chums Superman (-65%) and Wolverine (-60%) this past summer.

Zzzz. This is one of those dreadfully dull weekends at the box office — a placeholder stanza with one new wide offering ahead of Katniss' second archery assault, seven days from now. That's all I have and frankly that's all the analysis it deserves.

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